Nina Simone Quotes

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.

I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.